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This group of photos shows B.B. King in different locales. The first
three pictures are from his 1975 performance at the Memphis Blues
Festival with Bobby Bluebland, a noted Blues singer. Bluebland is
a "crooner," having a mellower singing style than King.
He also has the ability to "pop" his voice in what is known
as "hocket," an African musical tradition that injects silence
between notes. King and Bluebland were old friends and often did team
concerts together. They worked together very smoothly: as Bluebland
was finishing up a lyric, B.B. would just "slide in and take
over." |
The second group of pictures is from King's May 1976 performance
at Lucifer's Club in Boston. All of B.B.'s bookings and record deals
were handled by the Sidney A. Sidonberg Agency, which also managed
Gladys Knight and the Pips for a time. Sid Sidonberg and King were
good friends and had a lot in common, having grown up in the same
part of Mississippi. Sidonberg took care of all of King's business
arrangements from the beginning of his career until the late 1970s,
when Sidonberg retired. |
All photos are available in high-quality
.tiff format in the Site Map.
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